To be built on the hub’s existing footprint, it includes an 82,395m sq upward extension to Terminal Two, a new elevated road, a seven-storey car park extension and a new seven-storey car park. They also want to demolish Terminal One and its car park.

But Ringway Parish Council says the impact on the environment will be ‘massive’. The building will overshadow local houses, make the roads busier and worsen noise pollution, they claim.

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Audrey O’Donovan, chairman of the council, whose home on Mill Lane overlooks both runways, told the M.E.N: “They say they listen to their neighbours but they don’t.

“Soon we feel like there will be nobody left living in Ringway parish because the airport will just keep building and building.

“It impacts on everyone - the air pollution, we can smell kerosene whenever the wind blows, and the noise.”

Audrey and husband Christopher, a fellow parish councillor, have lived in their home for 37 years.

She added: “The airport is our worst enemy - they are on our doorstep and we can’t let them run riot all over us. That’s why we’ve objected.

“They build on farmland, knock down old houses and they just don’t care. They don’t care about the environment, about small villages being decimated.

“The Government has given all airports carte blanche to do what they like and expand where they want.”

She added: “It’s a one-sided exercise, because planning applications from the airport will always be waved through.

The parish council has objected to ‘at least 20’ planning applications made by Manchester Airports Group.

In a report, a planning officer has even written: “This development, as with all other Airport-related developments, is being objected to by Ringway Parish Council.”

But John Twigg, planning director for Manchester Airport, said the plans were inside the existing footprint to provide state of the art facilities and drive economic growth.

He added: “Manchester Airport has carried out a full consultation with key stakeholders and local residents as part of the planning application process. We have also conducted a wide range of independent environmental studies to assess the impact of the project.

"We support the view taken by Manchester City Council ’s planning officer in his report on the scale of this impact.”